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This week we visited the website of Saint Cupcake, a cupcake bakery in Portland, Oregon. In addition to buttercream and cream cheese frostings, the busy bakers came up with a third concept: icing cupcakes by dipping them in chocolate sauce (a.k.a. hot fudge). We like that idea—especially since our Top Pick Of The Week is…
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Tip #2: Garnish sorbet with simple cookies. Photo by Bruce Shippee | CST. Sorbet is a popular, easy, light and lower-calorie dessert. The only challenge is that if you’re serving a table full of people, the first dishes can start to melt while you’re still scooping. The solution: In advance of dessert, scoop balls of…
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How to grill pineapple and stone fruits.
In the cool weather we drink hot tea all day. In the warm weather, we’ve been drinking eight or so bottles of iced tea daily. A key difference: Hot tea doesn’t create landfill; bottled iced tea does. So as much as we love certain bottled teas and still enjoy them, we’ve been focusing on brewing…
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As part of a dessert course, as a “palate cleanser” between a meat course and a very sweet dessert or as a finale before after-dinner drinks, serve a small glass of fruit marinated in rum. For year-round ease, we use a mix of red and green grapes soaked in Myers’s Rum, a dark, mellow rum,…
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